Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week the Coloreds stood in line outside the Johannesburg branch of the Native Affairs Department. Most were coffee-colored, though some had fair hair. They were shopkeepers and typists, clerks and building contractors. Collectively, they are known in Johannesburg as a quiet, untroublesome and dignified lot who, prizing their semi-privileged status, have kept out of politics and instinctively sided with the white man against the black...
While the world's scientists met in Geneva for the first International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (see SCIENCE), the world's manufacturers of peaceful atomic products were busy on the other side of town at their own nuclear trade fair. In booths at the great Palace of Expositions, they displayed devices ranging from radiation detectors to brain probes. But what most countries were interested in buying was a nuclear power plant...
...from the Nautilus. Westinghouse arrived at Geneva's trade fair with a big salesman's advantage. It was the only company in the world that could take orders for a well-tested reactor. Though Britain could show off great technological advances-and its businessmen drew most of the preconference attention-it was far from the production stage on any specific model. Westinghouse, as the firm that built the power plant for the atomic submarine Nautilus, could boast of two years of practical experience with working reactors...
...Fair Dealers in Congress, none has a more durable record of sniping at business than Brooklyn's Veteran Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler. Back in 1922 he was elected on an antidepression, anti-Big Business platform, and, so long as the patchwork of tenements, corner drugstores and housing developments that he represents keeps on sending him back, he sees no reason to change his tactics.* In his time, rotund Manny Celler has whaled away at the steel industry and bank mergers, Wall Street and newsprint combines, even probed big-league baseball for suspected monopolistic tendencies (and why a hotdog cost...
Unequal Equality. Finance Minister Ichimada has decided to cancel the favorable tax deal given foreigners since 1951, make everyone pay the same stiff tax as Japanese. While that sounds fair, U.S. businessmen in Japan complain bitterly that the treatment they get is far from equal. Though many Japanese businessmen make big salaries, ride around in Cadillacs and spend freely, only a handful (400 in 1954) declare salaries as high as $15,000 a year. An executive in a big firm may declare a weekly salary of $100-and pay taxes on it. But his salary is only the beginning...